Automatic cash-carrier



No Model.)

J. W. PLAGG.

AUTOMATIC CASH CARRIER.

No. 316,531. Patented Apr. 28, 1885.

N. PEIEns. PlloIo-Lilhognpher. Washinglnr. n. C.

UNITED} STATES PATENT Orrrca.

JOSEPH \VALTER FLAGG, OF VVORGESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

AUTOMIATIC CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,531, datedApril 28, 1885.

Application filed October 18, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that I, J OSEPH WALTER FLAGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Gash- Oarriers, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by illustrative drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the inclined tracks upon which'the rolling carriers are conveyed to and from the sales-counters and the cashiers desk. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the elevator in its lowest position. Fig. 3 is a top view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a portion of the outward way, showing the attached intermediate way and connected devices for checking the passage of the carrier. Fig. 5 is a top view of the intermediate way removed from the outward way on line 00 :r, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the tilting gate. Fig. 7 represents, partly in section, the device for suspending the rails formingthe tracks. Fig. 8 shows one of the rolling carriers. Fig. 9 shows one of the hemispheres forming the rolling carrier, with its inclosing-bands removed, and Fig. 10 shows one of the inclosing-bands removed from the carrier.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

Mypresent invention relates to a cash-carrying apparatus in which an inward-inclined track, A, is used to convey rolling cash-carriers to the cashiers desk, and an outwardinelined track, B, is employed to return them from the cashiers desk to the several sales men; and it consists in an improved elevator for raising the cash-carriers from the salesmen to the inward track; in an improved method of suspension of the tracks, whereby the noise of the rolling carriers as they pass over the rails is to a great extent obviated; in intermediate waysor tracks placed below the outward way, having devices for retaining the carriers therein when the delivery-baskets are drawn down, and the construction of the rolling cash-carriers.

The elevator 0 consists of a cage or box, 0, adapted to hold the carrier while it is being raised, and of discharging it upon the inward track at the proper time, mounted upon a (No model.)

series of pivoted bars arranged in pairs, the 1 upper bars, a a, being pivoted at their upper ends to the lower side of the cage 0, and at their lower ends to the upper ends of the bars b b, which are pivoted together at their cen ters, and have their lower ends pivoted to the upper ends of the bars 0 c, likewise pivoted at their centers and at their ends to the bars 01 d; these in the same manner to e e; these to ff, and these to g g, which are pivoted at their centers by a rod, It, held by the guiderods h it, between which the elevator moves. It will be seen that one half of each pair of bars, with the adjacent half of the contiguous pair, forms in Fig. 1 a lozenge-shaped figure, E, with its vertical diameter the longest. If the lower ends of the bars g g be pushed upward and outward by means of the short bars 9 g, the upper ends of g y will be carried downward and outward, producing a simultaneous move ment throughout the series of pivoted bars, causing them to assume the position. shown in Fig. 2, in which the horizontal diameters of the lozenge-shaped figure E become the longest and the elevator lowered.

The carrier D may be placed in a cage or box, 0, which is open on the side next the track, the carrier D being held in place by the red It until the track A is reached, when the carrier rolls out upon thetraek, or a tilting device-such as was shown in the Letters Patent of the United States No. 274,302, granted to me, and dated March 20, 1883; or other means may be employed for ejecting the carrier from the elevator onto the inward track, my present invention relating only to the de vice for raising and lowering the carrier.

The rails forming the tracks I suspend by the rods 73 13 from a yoke, H, which is suspended from the rod j. It has been customary to place a strip of leather, rubber, or some similar substance upon the surfaces of the rails coming in contact with the rolling carriers to decrease the noise. I accomplish the same result by placing between the tracks and the suspending-rods a body with a small sound-conducting power, thereby insulating the tracks by a non-conductor of sound. This feature of my invention is conveniently embodied in the form shown in Fig. 7, and consists in placing a sleeve, k, of leather, felt, or some analogous material, about the rod j where it passes through the yoke H, a flange, k, separating the l pivoted bars or lazy-tongs have been used yoke from the nut Z on the rod j, thereby cutting off all sound-vibrations communicated through the yoke H from the rod j and materially lessening the noise produced by the rolling carriers. 1

Instead of a nut, Z, a bead may be formed on the rod j to support the yoke H.

The outward way, B, has at F a circular opening, similar to the circular openings in the outward track (shown in the Letters Pattent No. 274,302) above referred to, permitting the cash-carriers to fall through uponone end of the intermediate track, G, suspended beneath the track B.

A receiving-basket, I, is held against the under side and at the lower end of the intermediate track, G, by cords m, attached to wind-' ingdrums J on the track B. 7

Between the rails of the track G, and above the basket I, is a tilting gate, K, consisting of a rectangular frame, K, large enough to allow the carriers to pass through, and jour naled by bearings an in the rails, and having an arm, 0, on its outer andlower side resting upon the basket I, and serving also as aweight, so that when the basket is drawn down, as

. shown in Fig. 4, the weighted side of the tilting gate will fall, raising the opposite side above the way G, so as to check the passage of the carriers. up by the winding-drums the gate Kwill be returned to and-held in the same plane as the way G, allowing thecar'riers to pass through into the reeeiv'ing-basl'ret'l, as shown in Fig.- 1. A pin projecting from the inner side of one of the rails, but not shown in the drawings, retains the tilting gate in the position shown in Fig. 4. v 1

The carriers consist of hollow spheres formed of the hemispheres L L, adapted to contain the cash and to roll upon the inclined 7 ways, the two hemispheres beingpr'ovided with some one of the several Well-knownmeans for locking them together. The hemispheres I make of wood,papier-'maeh, rubber,

or leather-board, or similar material, and I form a recess, 10, around each hemisphere adband, 19, and a similar recess, g, at right angles with the plane surfaces, to receive the bandq. These recesses are of the same depth 1 as the metallic bands 10 and g", so' they will not project upon the outside of the carrier. By this method of construction I prevent the carriers from splitting, in case they are thrown ating mechanism for operating the said lazytongs, as and for the purpose set forth.

- 2. The combination, with the ways of a cashcarrying system and rods supporting said ways,- of non-sound-conducting sleeves oif ferrules interposed between said rods and'the contact of said ways, whereby the ways are insulated and the communication of the sound- Vibrations from the rolling carriers cut off from said supporting-rods, as and forthe parpose set forth.

*3; The combination, with the ways of n cash-carrying system and supporting-rods j and yokes H, of the sleeves k, inelosing the ;.rods' and cutting off the contact of the yokes' H, asset forth and described.

As the basket is again drawn 1 of a cash-carrying system haying openings to 4. The combination, with the outward way allow the carriers to pass, and vertically-mow i'ng' receiving baskets, of a short way 'sus-' Q pended beneath the openings of the main outward'way and between said way and the re 1 ceivingba'skets, and a tilting gate in said sus ipended way,- substantially as described, and i operated by the receiving-basket, 'so the pas:

sage of the carriers from said suspended way 5 will be determined by the position of the re-' l ceiving-ba's ket, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with the outward way, B,- of receiving-track G, tilting gate consisting of a frame, K, journaled in the w'a-y- G;

= andhaving an arm, 0, as and for the purpose set forth; jacent the plane surfaces, to receive a metallic i sphere formed of two hemispheres properly locked together,- and having one or more me tallicbands extending around each hemi: .sphere, said bands being recessed,-so as to' bring the bands flush with the outer surface .of the hemispheres, as and for the purpose -s'et forth. from the elevators or tracks upon the floor. I

7. The cash-carrier consisting of the herni joined together and recessed in the hemi spheres, as and for the purpose set forth;

Signed at Worcester, in the county of W61 cester and State of Massachusetts, this-16th day of October, 1884.

- I JOSEPH WALTER FLAGG.

\Vitnesses: RUFUS B. FOWLER, '..HENRY E. HILL. 

